Members of the gun rights group Open Carry Texas met with Fifth Ward
community leaders Wednesday, hoping to explain why they chose an
historic African-American community to hold a demonstration.

Members of the group were met by a chorus of voices telling them to
stay out of the neighborhood and warned they will be “matched
gun-for-gun.”
“I’m going to tell you something homie, this is Fifth Ward, you ain’t
coming in here running nothing,” community activist Quanell X said
while flanked by members of the New Black Panther Party, who were
holding assault rifles.
The two groups sat across from one another at a small folding table
under a tree near the intersection of Lockwood and Lyons to discuss the
details of Saturday’s upcoming event.